Trade in the Living

Luiz Felipe de Alencastro is Professor of Economic History at the Sao Paulo School of Economics, Director of the Center for South Atlantic Studies, and Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Paris, Sorbonne.

"Published in 2000 … Alencastro's work remains, in its scholarship, detail, and argumentative rigor, the benchmark for an integrated sixteenth- and seventeenth-century South Atlantic history. The relevance of the work twenty years on is indisputable." — H-Net Review (H-LatAm)"The author's command of written and archival sources is impressive, the writing is sometimes brilliant and usually provocative … The Trade in the Living must be considered a major accomplishment that has changed the way that both Brazilian and Angolan history is conceived, and reconceptualizes the place and importance of the South Atlantic in the history of slavery." — Slavery & Abolition"This is a long, detailed book, with many fascinating details and discussions outlining sea routes, the origins of the laws governing slavery, diplomatic relations Europeans developed with African and Native American societies, changes in banking practices and the transformation of capital investment to take advantage of the profits the slave trade offered." — Society for U.S. Intellectual History"…an important contribution to Anglophone literature on Atlantic history and the history of the Atlantic slave trade … Highly recommended." — CHOICE

• List of IllustrationsPresentation of the English EditionPatrick ManningAuthor’s Preface to the American Edition1. The Apprenticeship of Colonization2. Africans, "The Slaves from Guinea"3. Lisbon, Slave-Trade Capital of the Western World4. Amerindians, the "Slaves of the Land"5. Evangelization in One Colony6. The War over the Slave Markets photo gallery follows page 2527. Brasílica AngolaConclusion: Brazil’s SingularityAppendix 1 Luís Mendes de Vasconcellos and His OffspringAppendix 2 The Supply of Northern Captaincies by Southern Captaincies during the Dutch War 1630–1654Appendix 3 The Salvador Correa de Sá e Benevides FamilyAppendix 4 Notes on Some Portuguese and Brasilico Expeditionaries of 1648 Task Force that Recaptured AngolaAppendix 5 1600s Portuguese Atlantic Hand FirearmsNotesBibliographyIndex